For 18 months the couple (right), said to be worth a combined £210million, have spent £5million improving the palatial west London home (top left) - an inner-city replacement for their sprawling Hertfordshire estate 'Beckingham Palace'. But at least one neighbour is upset about plans (pictured centre) to install air conditioning in five rooms, including in the new gym and wine cellar. The resident has written to the local council and said he 'totally disagrees' with the plans, which 'will affect the historic character of the Victorian house of the streets, my house included'. MailOnline understands that the complainant is worried about air conditioning units being attached to the mansion, because of the visual impact and the humming noise. When ready, the home will have six-bedrooms, a gym (which replaces the pool (bottom left), study, office, playroom, cinema and large drawing room. The first floor will belong to David and Victoria, and boast a huge bedroom, an even bigger dressing room and an en-suite bathroom. Their four children will each have large bedrooms and the house will include rooms for hairdressing, manicures and make-up, as well as separate rooms for 40-year-old Victoria's shoe collection.

The video, which lasts several seconds, allegedly shown to two European newspapers, said the video taken inside the cabin includes scenes of passengers crying 'oh God' shortly before it crashed. German daily Bild and French magazine Paris Match said their reporters were shown the video after it was found on a memory chip that could have come from a mobile phone. Lieutenant Colonel Jean-Marc Menichini, a high ranking official involved in the recovery operation, categorically denied that any mobile phone footage had been found by investigators at the site.

Donna Oettinger had been denied urgent psychiatric help in the months before she and her son Zaki (pictured) died on train tracks not far from their home in south London, it was claimed today. Just three months before her death, she took an overdose while visiting a friend in Yorkshire and was 'disappointed' to have survived, the inquest was told. Ms Oettinger began suffering with severe anxiety after a visit to see Zaki's Egyptian father, Mohammed El Shaer.

Ian Walters (pictured left with his wife Tracy) allegedly veered his 4X4 off the M1 motorway as he returned from an unsuccessful 'make or break' trip in the Yorkshire Dales with his horse rider wife Tracy (pictured right). The court heard how the 51-year-old, who also worked as a driving instructor, was allegedly 'very angry' at the time of the crash because his wife had asked for a divorce. The pair, who were married in 2012, were said to have been in a 'troubled' relationship, with Mrs Walters frequently telling friends that her husband had been abusive to her. Jurors heard how Walters allegedly using sex 'as a sort of sedative' and would often turn to violence if his wife was unwilling to satisfy his sexual demands. Opening the trial at Leicester Crown Court today, the prosecution said Walters had purposely crashed the pick-up truck because he 'wanted to show her who was in charge'. Jurors heard how Mrs Walters had also texted one of her sons seconds before the crash to say she wanted to report Walters to the police but was too afraid. Mrs Walters died in hospital two days after the fatal crash in March last year. Walters denies murder and the trial continues.

The beautiful resort town of Clearwater has millions of tourists every single year - but few ever set foot in the downtown area. Exclusive photos show the extent of Scientology's grip on the city. The church owns 67 buildings over ten square miles, including motels, training centers, religious retreats and the Super Powers Building with its auditing rooms (below right).- all worth more than half a billion dollars. 'Sea Org' members earn $50 a week and work seven days starting at 7am and ending at midnight. They pay for the right to run around a pole in circles for hours until they realize the error of their ways. 'You never get to see your family. That's how it was for me. I was there from 1973 to 2007,' former executive director tells Daily Mail Online.

Turkish prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz has died from his injuries following a bloody siege which also left two hostage-takers dead in Istanbul. The Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front published disturbing photographs of the terrified prosecutor with a gun to his head on their official Facebook page (left). The group issued a demand at 2.36pm local time (12.36 GMT) asking for police to confess to killing a teenage protester, or Mr Kiraz would be shot. Gunshots were then heard from inside the building, resulting in police storming the site. Mr Kiraz was rushed to hospital and underwent emergency surgery but could not be saved.

Kyesha Smith Wood (left) from Bessemer, Alabama, posted the lengthy message in a bid to track down the woman after hearing about her children's behavior. She learned the woman approached the girls at the end of the screening in Bessemer, Alabama, and told them her husband had just been laid off and it was the last time she would be taking her daughter Ashley to the movies for a while - and they had ruined it. A devastated Wood tried to track down the woman, by sending out an apology on Facebook and offered to pay for her next trip out of her children's allowance.The post was shared by thousands of people, prompting the mother in question, Rebecca Boyd (top right), to write her a message.

Mum-of-two Zoe Dronfield (right and right in left picture), 38, suffered a bleed on the brain and a neck wound after partner Jason Smith (left), 31, from Coventry, launched a ferocious eight-hour attack.She feared he would escape justice until she hired a hypnotherapist who helped her piece together the details of the attack. Today, Ms Dronfield, from from Coventry, West Midlands watched Smith jailed for ten years at Warwick Crown Court in Leamington Spa.

Millions of travellers faced disruption on Britain's roads and rail network today while others are counting the cost of damaged homes after winds of almost 100mph battered the country overnight. Gusts of 80mph-plus were widespread as an Atlantic storm brought in bad weather and a Met Office severe weather warning for wind remains in place across the whole of the United Kingdom today. The strongest gusts recorded overnight were at Capel Curig in Snowdonia with gales of 97mph recorded, followed by High Bradfield near Sheffield with 82mph gusts and Weybourne in Norfolk with 76mph winds. Severe gales continue to batter the country today, including in Bradford, West Yorkshire, where one lady was blown over in the severe gales (left and right) as a low pressure system from the Atlantic sweeps in across the UK. The severe weather has already caused disruption across Britain, with fallen trees forcing road closures up and down the country and high winds damaging homes. Elsewhere, passenger planes struggled to land at Manchester Airport this afternoon due to 65mph winds and one Monarch flight touched down on one wheel as it came in to land (bottom inset). Forecasters predict the wet and windy weather will last until at least Thursday, but more promising conditions are expected for Easter weekend.

Keith MacDonald's rapidly growing brood is thought to have cost taxpayers more than £2million in benefits. The 29-year-old from Sunderland (pictured left and, top right, in 2008 with then-partner Becky Wright and their baby) is set to appear in a TV documentary tonight in which he says his latest child is due any time soon. But despite his most recent partner being heavily pregnant, he tells programme-makers he is still desperate to meet new women - and is even shown trying to chat up love interests at a bus stop. Former partners Charlotte Anderson (pictured, centre with her daughter Kady-Marie Anderson) and June Garrick (bottom right, with her son Brendan Garrick) say their children were fathered by MacDonald

The 200-year-old note was uncovered as part of renovation works at the 16th century Eastgate House in Rochester, Kent. It's thought to have been written by a former pupil at the Victorian girl's school.

The victim can be seen desperately trying to cover his face, as a man (in grey) punches and kicks him during the brutal attack in Broad Street, Birmingham. In the video a crowd is gathered around the man, but no-one tries to help him. The footage has been seized by police after it was uploaded onto the internet, and they have urged the victim to come forward.

Abu Rahin Aziz, 33, from Luton, fled the UK before he was handed a 36-week jail sentence in absence for attacking a football fan with a pen in London after claiming the man 'insulted the Prophet Mohammed'.

The unwitting victim, aged in her 30s, was captured on film for Brazilian hidden camera show Silvio Santos Program as the train pulls into an empty station. But to her increasing concern, the train doors do not open and the lights on the train and the platform begin to flicker menacingly. Terrified, she tries to yank the doors open out of desperation only to be confronted by dozens of walking dead who press their faces to the glass and push their hands through the open windows. She is later pounced on by a zombie who crawls up behind and tries to grab her, forcing her to wail in blind panic. The video ends with her fleeing the train in floods of tears.

Almost a year after a blaze gutted the Glasgow School of Art's Mackintosh Building, the architects who will lead the painstaking restoration of the library have been announced. Page\Park Architects have been chosen from a shortlist of five firms who bid for the role earlier this month - and the design team will now begin working on a detailed plan for the restoration of the much-loved library. Work is expected to begin in the spring of next year and it is hoped that students will have access to a fully-restored building from 2017 or 2018.

It has emerged that Lufthansa Airlines knew that Andrea Lubitz, co-pilot of the passenger plane which crashed in the French Alps last week, had suffered from a 'serious depressive episode' six years before the tragedy. He deliberately crashed the jet, killing all 150 people on board.

Governors of the Judd School in Tonbridge, Kent, admitted failing to ensure the safety of a 14 year-old boy who nearly died from head injuries after being hit with a metal shot during an athletics lesson.

COUNTDOWN TO ELECTION 2015

Battlelines have been drawn for the only major TV debate of the election campaign, when seven party leaders will go head-to-head in a two-hour marathon. Strict rules released by broadcaster ITV for Thursday's night's event spell out in minute detail who will speak when, and for how long, with host Julie Etchingham trying to keep order. The agreed line up behind the podiums will be, from left to right: Natalie Bennett (Green), Nick Clegg (Lib Dem), Nigel Farage (Ukip), Ed Miliband (Labour), Leanne Wood (Plaid Cymru), Nicola Sturgeon (SNP) and David Cameron (Conservative).

The leader of the Welsh nationalists Leanne Wood said she would never prop up the Tories in the event of a hung parliament - but said she could work with the SNP to drag a Labour government to the left.

Rafaele Sollecito, 31, was spotted looking at a £105,000 BMW at a dealership in Rome in the wake of his murder acquittal on Friday. Mr Sollecito, who spent four years in prison after previously being found guilty of killing Surrey-born Meredith, 21, is said to be looking at compensation for his time spent in prison.

Giving evidence at the inquest today, Francis Tyrrell said he was left 'flabbergasted' after being 'spoken to like criminals' when he went to identify son Kevin (pictured) after the April 1989 tragedy.

Having a celebrity sibling is no guarantee of a showbiz career as these brothers and sisters of Oscar and Grammy award winners prove - with their surprisingly normal day jobs. Eddie Redmayne's brother Tom (far left) has big screen looks but he works in property, Miley Cyrus's big sister Brandi (centre, right) is a blogger while Emma Watson's brother Alex has become a successful model in his own right.

Parents argue eight times a month about bringing up their children, according to new research. Giving in to tantrums, disagreement over discipline and whether to give little ones rewards can all spark rows.

The group, believed to be from Syria, were arrested on the M20 motorway near Folkestone, Kent, on suspicion of illegal entry into Britain after they were seen riding on top of the vehicle by a fellow driver. Police were called at 7.15am to reports that a group of men had been climbing down from a tanker or lorry at the slip road to junction 11.

The results of an experiment on the ISS, run by a team in California, to monitor how ants cope with zero-gravity (shown), has been published. When the ants tried to search, they struggled to keep their grip.

The accident happened when father-of-two Lee Christian, 37, took the customer for a drive of the luxury McLaren car, which veered off the road close to High Legh Garden Centre and drove into bushes before hitting a tree. He said: 'After we impacted with the tree, my first thought was that I was okay, but when I looked across the driver looked in very bad way.

Sarah Carr, 23, from Hull, suffered with interstitial cystitis for 17 years, and was bullied at primary school for needing to run to the loo. Finally, she found cutting out alcohol, spicy food and pizza helped.

Jade Delaney, 21, from Dublin, decided to get fit after speaking to personal trainers who worked at the gym where she had a job as a cleaner. She lost 8st in less than a year after ditching her bad habits.

When unnamed blogger Somewhereunderthewater bravely posted photos of her stomach while posing and then relaxed, she didn't anticipate the chord she'd strike with people across the globe. Six days after the images appeared, more than a million people have viewed them, with many leaving positive comments. Accompanying the posed and 'real' images, taken in a bathroom setting, is a post explaining why the user chose not to just show her body in its more perfect form. Somewhereunderthewater said her aim was to convey that even physically fit women don't look perfect all the time. She wrote: 'We aren't barbies. We are made of flesh and blood. These are all the same body - my body.

A collection of photos displays what extreme tattoos look like in later life with elderly men and women stripping down to show off their ink. The pride displayed in the pictures may be a sign of changing times as a new survey has found that 86 per cent of people with tattoos are still happy with their ink.

Tesco site carries a red letter warning stating the product is 'currently not available' on the majority of popular big brand eggs. Similarly, the Morrisons website is listing many top brands as 'out of stock'.

Almost 30 years on from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, almost 7,000 people are still working at the plant, helping to decommission it and dispose of the nuclear waste (left). They commute in on three trains each day, and are forced to undergo regular radiation tests (bottom right). Tens of thousands more live in towns and cities on the edge of the exclusion zone, exposed to between 20 and 30 times the usual background radiation level (top right). Finally, around 400 desperate pensioners have resettled inside the exclusion zone, unwilling to leave their familiar homes behind after so many years.

Neil Richardson, 69 (right), was constantly mistaken for John Jemison, 74 (left), when he moved to Braintree, Essex, and had no idea why - until the pair met and realised they look almost identical. The pair had never met up until a few days ago, despite living just 150 yards from each other, leaving Mr Richardson confused as to why people constantly confused him with Mr Jemison. However, they now recognise their similarities and have even discovered they have lived similar lives - both having attended the same college, both training as RE teachers and both enjoying singing in choirs. They have now enjoyed several lunches together in recent weeks and have even introduced their wives to one another.

Indiana University experts taught a robot to associate the name of an object with its location, while sat with a certain posture. When the object moved and posture changed, the robot failed to recognise the item.

The baby (main image) was found in his mother's lap under several tons of mud, police said today, as the grim task of searching for bodies continued. The victims all belonged to two families who after the rains had moved into what they thought was the stronger of two houses (inset) in Ladden village - 20 miles west of Indian Kashmir's main city Srinagar.

In the sleepy town of Whittier, Alaska, nearly all of the town's 218 residents live together under one roof: the 14-storey Begich Tower, which houses the entire neighbourhood, including a police department, a school, two convenience stores and the post office.

For half of the world's population, putting on and taking off a bra each day comes naturally. So spare a thought for the other half - the men who when faced with two metallic hooks - are thrown into chaos and confusion. Cosmopolitan magazine gave several guys the task of trying to unclasp a bra from a model, but for many it proved to be a fumbling failure.

Ali Jardine, 42, photographs silhouettes of her two kids in fairy tale environments from a spiraling night sky to sunsets. The creative mom has gained an rabid following online since she got her first iPhone in November 2010.

The archive of 52 celluloid negatives, worth £50,000, show the great British adventurer and his men heading off in the snow-covered wilderness during the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition of 1912. Some of the pictures show the herd of ponies the team used to haul the equipment-laden sledges on the 800 mile trek that would end with the deaths of Scott and the polar party of Edward Wilson, Lawrence Oates, Edger Evans and Henry Bowers.

The bright orange bugs were photographed in Tiruvalla, India as they battled with one another to take the stricken horse fly back to their nest (main image). Photographer Sreekumar Mahadevan Pillai said he took the photograph in his back garden, where a massive teak tree acts as a home for millions of half-inch long weaver ants (inset).